Family Medicine

Looking at the ingredients label on a diet soda raises questions: What the heck is glycerol ester of wood rosin? Brominated vegetable oil? Phenylketonurics? More importantly, are diet sodas and these ingredients unhealthy? Susannah Southern, an outpatient dietitian in UNC’s Department of Family Medicine, walks us through the basics.

This weekend, Dr. Larry Marks, Chief of the UNC Department of Radiation Oncology, will join YOUR HEALTH Radio to talk about the use of radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer. This is the first in a four-part series on cancer care.

The study, published in the journal Tobacco Control, found that in the first four years of the North Carolina Tobacco-Free Colleges Initiative, 33 college campuses in North Carolina adopted tobacco-free policies, which prevent tobacco use to the maximum extent allowed by law.

Dr. Warren P. Newton, chair of UNC's Department of Family Medicine and executive associate dean for medical education at UNC’s School of Medicine, has been elected chair of the American Board of Family Medicine.

The UNC Department of Family Medicine was recently ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its annual survey of medical schools. It was the highest ranked Family Medicine department in the eastern United States.

The UNC Department of Family Medicine was recently ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its annual survey of medical schools. It was the highest ranked Family Medicine department in the eastern United States.

This weekend, Dr. Suzanne Havala Hobbs joins "Here's to Your Health" to discuss the benefits of a vegetarian diet. Please tune in to WCHL 1360 AM either Saturday at 9 a.m., Sunday at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., or Monday at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.